World Comparison, Analysis of Revenge

Time flowed on without pause. Just like that, five years passed.

Over the years, Zhuang Xingyu gradually figured out everything around him, and the doubts that had once plagued him had long since been answered.

The reason Zhuang Xingyu had come to Douluo Continent was that "broken bead." That bead was actually a fragment of the legendary Chaos treasure—the Chaos Bead!

Its power was less than one ten-trillionth of the true Chaos Bead's.

It was said to contain a Chaos World, but Zhuang Xingyu was currently too weak to find or use it. Moreover, treasures concealed their own brilliance, and it had not displayed much miraculous power.

After five years of nurturing and refining it, Zhuang Xingyu had developed four abilities:

Storage function: 1,000 cubic meters. It could store plants, but as for animals, only Zhuang Xingyu himself could enter;

Concealment function: It could shield heavenly secrets to a certain extent and prevent others from spying on him;

Detection function: It could see through falsehood and strike directly at the source;

Teleportation function: It could be used once every six years and could not be accumulated. Whatever place he imagined in his mind, he would be teleported there. He could return to his previous location at any time within two and a half shichen; after two and a half shichen, he would be forcibly returned. It could only teleport Zhuang Xingyu himself.

As Zhuang Xingyu's strength increased, the Chaos Bead would be able to develop even more functions in the future.

That stone cylinder actually recorded the Tai Chi Xuanqing Dao of Qingyun Sect from the Zhu Xian World. It contained the complete cultivation methods for the Yuqing Realm, Shangqing Realm, and Taiqing Realm, along with several spells, such as the Divine Sword Controlling Thunder True Art. Unfortunately, he was not yet capable of using them.

Zhuang Xingyu had already completed steps such as drawing spiritual energy into his body at the age of three. As long as he obtained his first soul ring, he could break through to the Yuqing First Layer.

It was precisely because of these things that Zhuang Xingyu had been able to break through the Mystery of the Womb.

As for the strange old man's claim that Zhuang Xingyu possessed three heaven-defying Dao bodies, Zhuang Xingyu had not discovered them yet. Perhaps Douluo Continent was too weak to awaken those constitutions.

After all, shallow waters could not produce true dragons. It was like how Ye Fan in Shrouding the Heavens could not awaken his Primordial Sacred Body while on Earth.

At the age of three, Zhuang Xingyu left his parents and moved into his own small courtyard. Living with them had been warm, but he could not cultivate freely and could only do so in secret.

That was fine for a short time, but if it continued for too long, his parents would easily notice. Then it would be difficult for them to accept, and they might even suspect whether he was truly their son. Although he definitely was their son, it would still affect their relationship.

Moreover, the early stages of the Tai Chi Xuanqing Dao required body tempering. It was inconvenient to do push-ups and other exercises with huge iron blocks every day at his parents' place. Having his own courtyard made things much easier.

Through records from novels in his previous life and secret inquiries with his parents, Zhuang Xingyu discovered that the Yuqing Realm corresponded to ordinary soul masters in Douluo. Each soul ring acquired was equivalent to a breakthrough by one stage in the Yuqing Realm. There were nine soul rings in total, corresponding to the nine layers of Yuqing.

The Shangqing Realm corresponded to Divine Officials, Rank 3 Gods, Rank 2 Gods, and Rank 1 Gods. The Taiqing Realm corresponded to God Kings and Creation Gods. The Dragon God of that time should have been in the Half-Step Creation God Realm, above a God King.

In Zhu Xian, one could fly on a sword at the fourth layer of Yuqing. Zhang Xiaofan and the others could fly across the thousands of li from Bat Cave to Liubo Mountain, while in Douluo Continent, one needed to reach Titled Douluo to fly briefly without relying on a martial soul or Spirit Bone;

In Zhu Xian, the Divine Sword Controlling Thunder True Art at the ninth layer of Yuqing could easily split apart an entire mountain, while in Douluo Continent, Tang San hid hundreds of meters underground, and Qian Renxue, a god with a Rank 1 divine position, could not even find him;

In Zhu Xian, the fourth layer of Yuqing granted a lifespan of several hundred years, while peak Douluo in Douluo Continent only lived around two hundred years;

The landmass of Douluo Continent covered only around nine million square kilometers. Including the nearby islands, it was about the size of Maple Leaf Country on Blue Star. The Zhu Xian World, on the other hand, casually spanned thousands of li, and it also had the underworld, the ancient Heavenly Emperor, and the Wilderness. It was far larger than Blue Star. A large area was not necessarily strong, but a small area certainly was not.

Furthermore, Zhu Xian did not only have Qingyun Sect. There were also demonic cultivators, Buddhist cultivators, the Beast God, and more. It was a flourishing world, while Douluo Continent stood alone.

In Douluo Continent, God Kings could only resurrect the dead after meeting certain conditions, with enormous restrictions and costs. Or rather, they needed to rely on the world authority held by their divine positions. Yet Bi Yao was resurrected in Zhu Xian II. In fact, resurrection had also been possible in Zhu Xian I, but it seemed something had been missing—it was an issue with the world itself.

Then there was the difference in world suppression. If one suffered suppression from fifty laws in the Zhu Xian World, then the law suppression in the Douluo World would only amount to five.

This meant that the same amount of energy produced different levels of attack power. A Titled Douluo from Douluo Continent definitely could not display the combat power of the ninth layer of Yuqing in Zhu Xian, while someone at the ninth layer of Yuqing from Zhu Xian could display Divine Official-level combat power in Douluo.

It was like Xiao Yan in Battle Through the Heavens. In the Dou Qi Continent, someone in the Dou Di Realm could easily shatter the continent, yet in the Great Thousand World, even tearing space apart was difficult.

It was similar to gravity. If the gravity one endured in the Zhu Xian World was as strong as that of Jupiter, then the gravity in the Douluo World would only be as strong as that of the Moon.

Zhuang Xingyu said, "The laws of the two worlds are different. Considering combat power, lifespan, the use of laws, and everything else, this is most likely how they are divided. Furthermore, Zhu Xian also has many skills such as formations, alchemy, Puppets, and artifact forging—especially the Zhu Xian Sword Formation. Douluo Continent has almost none of these things."

Zhuang Xingyu was less than half a month younger than Tang San, making them the same age.

"Luckily, the timeline still works. Tang San hasn't obtained those opportunities yet, so I have plenty of room to act."

"I can use the Chaos Bead's teleportation function to deal with Tang San in advance. Even if I can't kill him, I can still severely injure him and reduce his talent. I can also seize the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone and the Blue Silver Emperor before him."

Zhuang Xingyu did not dare send people to assassinate Tang San. First, he had no death warriors under his command. Second, the risk was too great. If Tang Hao caught them, the losses would outweigh the gains.

He could also stop Su Yuntao and make him arrive late—or simply keep him from going to Sacred Soul Village to awaken martial souls. That way, Tang San would awaken his martial soul much later, miss out on opportunities, and waste his talent.

After thinking it over, he suppressed the impulse and decided against it. He was still too weak right now and could only rely on his family's power. If any step was not handled cleanly, the enemy might follow the trail back to his family.

Back then, Tang Hao and Tang Xiao had taken advantage of Zhuang Ziliang being alone to kill him and seize his treasure without a second word, all for a Spirit Bone.

That was the tyranny of the Upper Three Sects. Given the Clear Sky Sect's strength, if they had simply asked for it, how would Zhuang Ziliang have dared refuse? If they wished to preserve the Clear Sky Sect's reputation, they only needed to publicly claim that they had exchanged Gold Soul Coins for it willingly. Whether they actually gave him any Gold Soul Coins depended entirely on the Clear Sky Sect. Zhuang Ziliang would never have dared make a fuss.

From the Clear Sky Sect's perspective, they had not done anything wrong either. They did not want to put the matter in the open, because they prided themselves on righteousness. They did not want others to accuse them of bullying the weak, did not want to spend money, and did not want to leave themselves an enemy.

In a Douluo Continent ruled by individual might, there was no right or wrong in such matters—only closeness and distance.

What force in Douluo had not risen atop the blood and bones of others? Bone Douluo had wanted to kill Tang San the moment he first saw him, and Tang San even had the Clear Sky Sect as his backing! At that time, Zhuang Ziliang was merely an eighty-second-level Soul Douluo, and his family did not even have a single Titled Douluo. Why would Tang Hao and Tang Xiao have feared acting against him?

Some prodigies from other worlds thought that making friends with juniors like Ning Rongrong was enough, then went to negotiate terms with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Clear Sky Sect despite having no background or power. Who knew what they were thinking?

Zhuang Ziliang had not asked his descendants to avenge him. Instead, he told them to forget the matter, because he knew his family's strength made revenge impossible.

How many families capable of surviving in Douluo were fools? This was not a novel, but a real world—an unordered fantasy world ruled by individual might. Fools like Love-struck Brains were ultimately very rare. To put it another way: Love-struck Brains and other fools without backing had long since died out.

But how could the murder of one's grandfather go unavenged? If he could not defeat Tang Hao now, could he not defeat Tang San?